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From: toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Product review: Northgate N102 keyboard
Message-ID: <3585@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Jun 88 13:45:20 GMT
References: <11244@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Tom Almy)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <11244@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  The touch is good. I really want a touch just like my AT, but this is
>nice, with a real overcenter key with a click (not a burp thru the
>speaker or the bottom of the keyboard). It's comfortable to use for long
>sessions, and best of all *I can put the stupid Cntl key back where it
>belongs*. It works on both XT and AT, very nicely.

I second, as another happy user.  Also note that it is *solid*, not flimsy
like most clone keyboards.  My only complaint is that they should have handled
the enter key like the 101 instead of the 84 key (the \| key where the top of
the enter key is, and the backspace key twice as large).  But I wouldn't trade
this keyboard for any other I have used.  In fact I am getting a second one
so I don't have to carry this one between home and work!

By The Way, I have a few TSRs which "fix" keyboard problems that I will be
sending to the binary group.  One of them makes the caps lock key into a
control key, but performs like a caps lock if the right shift key is depressed.
This "fixes" the wayward control key problem in the 101 key keyboards.  I have
another one for the Northgate 102 which makes the caps lock into an alt key
(this puts an Alt key in the same spot is is in the 84 key keyboard).  A third
TSR does the same shift lock to control trick, but with the left shift key.
This gives 84 key keyboards a right hand control key.  A fourth TSR exchanges
the Escape and `~ keys, putting the Escape where it belongs.

>
>  Order from Northgate, introductory price $89.
>

A bargain -- $10 less than their 101 key keyboard.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.tek.com

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